US Patent: 54,394
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| Improvement in oilers
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Patentee:
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| Leverett Homer Olmsted (exact or similar names) - Stamford, CT |
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Patent Dates:
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| Granted: |
May 01, 1866 |
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Jeff Joslin
Vintage Machinery entry for L. H. Olmsted
Scientific American article on this invention
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Description: |
| The invention is an oil can where an internal tube limits the travel of the flexible top or bottom (however the oil can is constructed) to prevent the flexible part from bending beyond its elastic limit and taking a "set". The 1866-10-27 Scientific American, page 286, had a brief illustrated article on the invention. The article does not indicate whether the oil can was being manufactured. However an ad in the Classified Ads section for "Oilers—Olmsted's Improved Spring Top", from L. H. Olmsted, Stamford, Conn., was selling them in No. 1 ("Machinist's) size at $3.65 per dozen in tin. |
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